Automatic grounding of vague geographic ontology in data

Third, Allan; Bennett, Brandon and Mallenby, David (2007). Automatic grounding of vague geographic ontology in data. In: Geocomputation 2007, 03-05 September 2007, Maynooth, Ireland.

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Abstract

In constructing an ontological theory of a domain such as geography, it is important not only to take account of the vagueness and ambiguity which is inherent in many of the relevant concepts, but also to be able to relate the high-level definitions of the theory to actual sets of data of varying kinds. Any attempt to ignore or remove vagueness and ambiguity risks errors and conflict in the ontological theory with the knowledge of different domain experts, while an inability to ground the theory in real data limits its practical use. We present here a means of structuring such a theory to handle these issues in a principled manner, which lends itself to concrete implementation. We illustrate with reference to several examples from the domain of hydrography.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Copyright Holders:	2007 The Authors
Academic Unit/School:	Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
Interdisciplinary Research Centre:	Centre for Research in Computing (CRC) Health and Wellbeing PRA (Priority Research Area)
Item ID:	29942
Depositing User:	Allan Third
Date Deposited:	03 Nov 2011 14:54
Last Modified:	06 Sep 2017 17:05
URI:	http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/29942
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